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...Fowl Season...
...Governor responded by asking the EPA to re-evaluate its policy on endrin use and petitioning Agency Administrator Anne Gorsuch for more money to monitor the problem in Montana. The state fish and game commission, meanwhile, conducted studies of toxin levels in 100 game fowl and announced that it would decide whether or not hunting could go on. Most hunters, busy polishing their shotguns and checking their decoys, would not comment on the situation...
Churkey is the creation of Buxted Poultry, Britain's largest marketer of table fowl. The company decided that British consumers needed a new variety of bird that would be large enough to feed a family at Sunday dinner but not nearly so tough as a typical 5-lb. roaster. Buxted's researchers found a way to produce such a bigger, better bird: take a young, small turkey and make it taste like a chicken...
...best of times to be a chicken. First the searing heat over much of the nation this summer killed nearly 10 million birds, or about 1% of the 1.25 billion commercial chickens alive and scratching in the U.S. at any one time. Drought drove up grain prices, making the fowl more expensive to feed and buy. Now comes still another peril: so-called exotic Newcastle disease, a viral disorder that attacks chickens as well as a wide variety of other birds...
...some of it is infectious. Director Sargent orchestrates the punch-drunk merriment with finesse. But one cannot help remembering that the movie's working title was What's That Funny Smell? Under any title, it offers the film equivalent of a day on the farm: a little fowl and a lot of bull...